A Pessimist's Guide to Love (Heartsong, #2)

by Jennifer Hartmann

What I’m starting to realize is that things meant to happen are just going to happen. There’s no preparing, no preventing. They just happen. And the risks we take, the memories we make, are the only things that count. That’s all that matters. Everything else is going to happen anyway.

Everyone has demons. Monsters lurking around every corner, whispering in your ear, hiding under your bed, living just beneath your skin. The key is turning your demons into friends. Companions. Don’t let them scare you. Don’t let them chase you. Let them run with you. Only then, you will win.

There’s no reason for suffering, but there’s always a reason to keep going.

“The only thing stronger than fear is our tenacity to overcome it.”

“Your struggles don’t scare me. Your flaws don’t make me want to run the other way. They only make me want to fight with you.”

“She used to say that life itself was like a Deceptive Cadence, just a giant musical trick to keep you on your toes. When you think something is going in a certain direction, a curveball is thrown at you. Something you don’t expect.”

“Home is something I buried a long time ago,” he tells me, voice cracking with sentiment. A breath passes between us, a drumbeat. And then he whispers, “But I buried it inside you. Just in case I ever wanted to go back.”

“Even a tragedy can have a happy ending. Sometimes we just need to write it in ourselves.”